Canal Pageant Feared Hindered By Culebra Slides
Plans for the international naval pageant through the Panama Canal next March are in doubt due to slides in Culebra Cut. The 100 foot wide channel threatens passage of dreadnoughts and other giant warships, with dredges unable to fully keep pace, raising concern about blocking navigation and risks to ships costing around 15 million dollars each. Ordinary merchant traffic remains less affected.
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Panama Canal
Europe
Colonel Goethals
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Culebra
United States
War changes canal plans for Panama celebration
The war prompts likely changes to the opening of the Panama Canal with the international naval review at Hampton Roads dropped. European nations will be scarce, and the plan may shift to the American fleet sailing from Guantanamo to Panama with foreign ships joining at the isthmus or Guantanamo.
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Washington
Panama Canal
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Canal
United States
Panama
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Isthmus
Seventy Jap Picture Brides Arrive for Husbands
Seventy Japanese picture brides arrive on the Shinyo Maru to meet grooms they have never seen and are housed on Angel Island until husbands claim them. Fifty more arrive in the past week on other ships. They are tagged numbered and paired with husbands and escorted by the Japanese Association to marriage licensing and a religious service.
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San Franciseco
Japan
Angel Island
United States
Opium Market Turmoil as Turkey Enters War
In London a serious disturbance in the opium trade follows Turkey's entry into the war. Indian opium remains available, but morphine grade opium from the Smyrna region now dominates the market, unsettling suppliers and buyers.
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London
Smyrna
Biggest Apple Crop Ever in U S 1914 Yield 259 Million Bushels
The Department of Agriculture reports the 1914 apple yield at 259,000,000 bushels, up 114,000,000 from 1913. The figures reflect actual agricultural yield not the commercial crop, with Washington noting the large increase over the previous year.
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U. S
Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Redfield urges optimism and action for wartime recovery
Secretary Redfield urges business leaders to cheer up and expand, citing low prices and rising demand. He counsels starting contracts, adding plant capacity, and selling goods now, comparing American resilience to Belgium and Poland and praising cities like San Francisco and Chicago.
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Secretary of Commerce
Redfield
Belgium
Poland
San Francisco
Galveston
Chicago
Boston
Charleston
Baltimore
Dayton
Thomas A. Edison
Devastating Camden Fire Exacts $700000 Loss
A major Camden blaze destroyed the Atlantic City Railway station ferry slips twenty-one vestibule coaches and four Pullman cars, plus the B. Cole Lumber Co building and seven lumber sheds. Wind-driven flames shifted southward, injuring many firefighters and forcing service discontinuation. Eighteen Camden units and Philadelphia crews battled the daylong fire.
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N. J
Atlantic City Railway Company
Wilbur Fleming
James
Philadelphia
B. Cole Lumber Company
Diplogue
Fight to finish warned over ship purchase bill in Senate
Washington reports a Senate clash as Administration leaders face a determined opposition. Lodge Roct and Gallinger warned the bill cannot be jammed through this session amid mounting debate on shipping policies and U S commerce.
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Senate
Lodge
Roct
Gallinger
Amsterdam
Maastricht
William
Berlin
Great Britain
United States
EL Paso
Villa
Juan Cabral
Hill
Naco
Arizona-Sonora
Germans Strike at Russians In Alsace and Poland
Paris and Berlin report heavy fighting across Alsace and Poland with gains and losses on both sides. French forces claim Steinbach and Cernay positions near Alsace’s front, while Russians say they repelled German attacks west of the Vistula and report gains near Sutchada. The Formidable battleship sinks in the Channel after a mine or torpedo strike with 600-plus dead.
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Alsace
Paris
Berlin
State wide Jersey items
Local notes report reforms and civic efforts across New Jersey towns. Highlights include Elmer's anti peddler campaign, Burlington seeking a purchasing agent, Sea Isle City eyeing water works and gas plants, and Millville extending agricultural extension funding. Community groups, school security, fire, health board expansions, and tax delinquencies are noted along with civic events and farm board plans.
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German Submarine Sinks Formidable in English Channel
An official German press release reports a submarine torpedoed and sunk the British battleship Formidable in the English Channel off Plymouth. The sub was pursued by British destroyers but escaped undamaged.
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Admiralty
English Channel
Plymouth
French Attacks in Argonne Beaten Off by Germans
Berlin says German army headquarters reports enemy ships with torpedo boats appeared off Westende Belgium without firing. Western front artillery fights occurred and an infantry assault north of St Menehould in the Argonne Forest was repelled with heavy French losses.
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London
Westende
Belgium
St. Menehould
Argonne Forest
German Bomb Raids Hit Dunkirk Descriptions and Casualties
A Daily Mail correspondent reports German aircraft raiding Dunkirk after their attack on Cuxhaven. Bombs caused destruction across the town including fortifications and hospitals, with 15 killed and 82 wounded. Casualties include a severed arm of a child and a dead elderly woman.
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Daily Mail
Dunkirk
Cuxhaven
Caumartin
Balkan Neutrality Efforts Fail As War Looms
London dispatches report that steps to secure Bulgarian neutrality among the Christian Balkan states have not succeeded. Greece Servia and Rumania prepare for potential hostilities amid growing tensions in the region.
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Balkan
Bulgaria
Greece
Servia
Rumania
French Take Steinbach in Alsace After Street Fighting
The German press bureau admits French hands seized Steinbach on the heights near Thann and Sennheim after three days of close combat. French forces won west of Sennheim then were driven back at heavy losses, as 200000 Germans move east via Cologne. Britain may urge a US joint prize court appeal board. Germany says it has supplies and funds to wage war indefinitely.
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Deborah and Barak Victory on Mount Tabor
In Judges 4 and 5 the deliverance of Israel is recounted with Deborah as a prophetess and judge who calls Barak to battle. The narrative highlights divine aid, Barak’s leadership, and the decisive defeat of Sisera as God orders and oversees the victory from Mount Tabor through shifting elements and strategic courage.
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